The UK Gay-Straight Alliance will celebrate National Coming Out Day on Thursday on the Student Center Patio. The event will last from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. According to the Facebook page for this event, there will be a bake sale, pizza, music, student groups and more. Red T-shirts will be worn to show either [...]

By Nick Craddock UK is challenging students to help shrink its carbon footprint, after Lexington was listed in a recent study as the number one source of carbon dioxide emissions in the country, per resident per capita. “In a study of 100 cities this summer, Lexington had the worst carbon footprint in America,” said Chrissie [...]

J.J. Jackson loves to cook. Not the kind of cooking that involves a pre-processed, who-knows-what’s-in-it bag of stuff that’s thrown into the oven. Instead, Jackson prefers cooking with unaltered ingredients. “I love transforming raw materials into something,” said Jackson, UK’s vice president for institutional diversity. “To fully appreciate the ingredient, I’ll taste anything raw before [...]

Student Government will vote on whether it supports a “green fee” during its Wednesday meeting. At last week’s SG Senate meeting, Sen. Robert Kahne presented a resolution saying $6 to $8 of student fees should go to sustainability efforts. The resolution would reflect the Senate’s opinion and not directly bring any change to student fees. [...]

By Jill Laster jlaster@kykernel.com Within seven days, a Frankfort judge may decide whether gaming Web sites must forfeit their domain names to Kentucky within a week, said Justice and Public Safety Department spokeswoman Jennifer Brislin. Lawyers representing the Commonwealth, as well as those from the gaming sites and other organizations opposed to the suit, presented [...]

By Alex Suckow A crowd of about 45 people gathered in the W.T. Young Library Auditorium on Monday night to learn about the “real Jesus” from biblical scholar Ben Witherington. Witherington, a professor at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., spoke at an event sponsored by the UK Christian Studies Center. His presentation, “Will the [...]

By Travis Walker The two major party presidential candidates have raised hundreds of millions of dollars this election season, but the president of the UK College Republicans said it is unlikely that many of those large donations have come from college students. Instead, Jacob Sims said students are donating their time and volunteering, which he [...]